Fixed what? Episode 8 is good, tongues and all! I received my copy last week, watched it, love it and the second soundtrack CD is absolutely awesome. I don't remember any animation problems with 8 just 5.

Episode 8 had very sloppy animation, a lot of episodes of the show have some awkward animation.

Vertical Inc. is going to be licensing Shin Sekai Yori's manga, it will be going on sale early this fall.
No idea if there's any manga fans out there, but hey it's there now.
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Yakomaru is my man ... or mole.. or rat... whatever...
I would have come up with the same tactic for most part of the currently known plot. Oh well.. in general I like clever strategist more than brute force soldiers

That kid was really creepy, the plot for this anime has developed so wonderfully. Episode by episode, it just keeps on getting better and better and there are sooo many plot twists and unexpected outcomes. I have so much love for the author of this novel and the people who are making this anime. This should be an all time classic. I'm surprised however that this novel didn't get that much attention internationally, it's just sooo good!

Also, on side note/question, can someone explain to me how the ogre is able to bypass the shame of death?

It's on ep 12. The orges is totally lost their sanity, so don't feel bad when killing their own kind. They might also have the pleasure of killing.

The thing with orges is that they don't grow up with the shame of death being placed into them. It's a subconscious act of the user's mind which was indoctrinated into all villagers. Thus orges are not born in the village to be indoctrinated. What makes it scarier is that they have no concept of right or wrong, they do not have limits because they have never been made to experience fear the same as the villagers.

So it makes you wonder how they can actually fight back let alone survive. Really looking forward to the last few eps.

Anyone have any idea whose voice it was in the previews telling Saki things would be ok? Am I thinking to hard that it might be Shun's voice?

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Thats what I think, Shun isnt actually dead in my view. I think he's also the one who killed that impure cat for mamoru in the school (with the fire tornado thing). We'll see though

Series just keeps getting ebtter and better!

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Interesting theory about Shun and the impure cat. I don't think I posted it back then when that episode occurred but I thought to myself that might be Shun who saved him, too! I don't know about you but I just have this feeling somehow Shun will have something to say about this before it ends. Well, at least I hope so because I'll be disappointed if he's treated as an afterthought considering his connection with Saki.

Anyone have any idea whose voice it was in the previews telling Saki things would be ok? Am I thinking to hard that it might be Shun's voice?

Spoiler Alert! Click to show or hide

Thats what I think, Shun isnt actually dead in my view. I think he's also the one who killed that impure cat for mamoru in the school (with the fire tornado thing). We'll see though

Series just keeps getting ebtter and better!

Spoiler Alert! Click to show or hide

Interesting theory about Shun and the impure cat. I don't think I posted it back then when that episode occurred but I thought to myself that might be Shun who saved him, too! I don't know about you but I just have this feeling somehow Shun will have something to say about this before it ends. Well, at least I hope so because I'll be disappointed if he's treated as an afterthought considering his connection with Saki.

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He was also one of the more interesting characters earlier on, much more interesting than Shinji Ikari Mk2 (mamoru) and I thought him just going along with satoru's love could have made for an interesting plot point.

Im wondering how they plan on using anthrax to kill the ogre, sure it'll kill the ogre but its incredibly virulent and contagious as the fake minoshiro said. So surely it'll wipe out most of japan, or atleast saki, satoru and kiroumaru? There seems to be no way to avoid it getting them

Anyone have any idea whose voice it was in the previews telling Saki things would be ok? Am I thinking to hard that it might be Shun's voice?

Spoiler Alert! Click to show or hide

Thats what I think, Shun isnt actually dead in my view. I think he's also the one who killed that impure cat for mamoru in the school (with the fire tornado thing). We'll see though

Series just keeps getting ebtter and better!

Spoiler Alert! Click to show or hide

Interesting theory about Shun and the impure cat. I don't think I posted it back then when that episode occurred but I thought to myself that might be Shun who saved him, too! I don't know about you but I just have this feeling somehow Shun will have something to say about this before it ends. Well, at least I hope so because I'll be disappointed if he's treated as an afterthought considering his connection with Saki.

Spoiler Alert! Click to show or hide

He was also one of the more interesting characters earlier on, much more interesting than Shinji Ikari Mk2 (mamoru) and I thought him just going along with satoru's love could have made for an interesting plot point.

Im wondering how they plan on using anthrax to kill the ogre, sure it'll kill the ogre but its incredibly virulent and contagious as the fake minoshiro said. So surely it'll wipe out most of japan, or atleast saki, satoru and kiroumaru? There seems to be no way to avoid it getting them

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Well, Saki at times seems to be narrating the story from an even older age at points through this so I'm assuming she'll be fine but there's also the chance she'll be the only alive in the end out of their original group of 5. Being that they've never dealt with Anthrax before leads me to believe things will happen beyond their control as they didn't expect. Just like their belief that having Power would keep monster rats in check but their naïveté in the end did them in on that.

This episode had some pretty great animation early on. I miss that lovely animation. Most of the episode is at least well shot, with nice angles and lighting. Really, everything about this episode was just lovely to watch, despite that ~quality~ still hangin' around.

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The stories also picked up again, thankfully. I was pretty unimpressed with the last few episodes, but this episode was pretty much a blessing. I was actually kind of surprised they went with Anthrax, of all things. I don't think I've actually seen that in a Sci-fi series. It's a neat bioweapon, I'm interested to see how it plays out.
S'much as I love, love, love Kiromaru, I sense somethings gonna happen with him. I like how they really made use of the animation to show that instead of using his way of speaking, by the way. I just love how Shin Sekai Yori uses it's visuals in general. It's amazingly refreshing from some of the stuff I've seen recently. Even with the shows ups and downs, I can at least say it's one of the more interesting animations I've seen in a good while. Just sucks it's so underloved, it deserves a much nicer budget. ;3;

This episode had some pretty great animation early on. I miss that lovely animation. Most of the episode is at least well shot, with nice angles and lighting. Really, everything about this episode was just lovely to watch, despite that ~quality~ still hangin' around.

Spoiler Alert! Click to show or hide

The stories also picked up again, thankfully. I was pretty unimpressed with the last few episodes, but this episode was pretty much a blessing. I was actually kind of surprised they went with Anthrax, of all things. I don't think I've actually seen that in a Sci-fi series. It's a neat bioweapon, I'm interested to see how it plays out.
S'much as I love, love, love Kiromaru, I sense somethings gonna happen with him. I like how they really made use of the animation to show that instead of using his way of speaking, by the way. I just love how Shin Sekai Yori uses it's visuals in general. It's amazingly refreshing from some of the stuff I've seen recently. Even with the shows ups and downs, I can at least say it's one of the more interesting animations I've seen in a good while. Just sucks it's so underloved, it deserves a much nicer budget. ;3;

Sadly it is selling under 600 copies per volume including my copy of each one so far. This is so far from break even that it makes me sad but I have shown my appreciation anyways, bought these novels and another six by the same author that I haven't read yet but he has his royalties already. Least I can do...

So far I think episode ten is still my favorite but I hope the last few surpass it. Ten is the last one I have on Bluray for a few weeks (11-13 later this month) so I may still change my mind...